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Provan home

I copied, copied, copied ideas out of your magazine while building this house. My husband and I did most of it ourselves, but we did contract out the foundation, roof, plumbing, electrical, and interior framing. We did all the sheetrock, taping, bedding, and built the exterior walls from Rastra. I learned to plaster and lay tile. We got our ideas from HGTV, magazines, and the Internet. We still need to landscape the exterior, and I am working on that right now.